Maus

Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.

Recommended Texts for Pairing

Night by Elie Wiesel (1958)

• Wiesel’s memoir of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust
• shares the themes of The Value of Bonds and Fortune, Fate, and Survival
• Night on SuperSummary

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (2006)

• a memoir of Bechdel’s childhood growing up in a funeral home and her complicated relationship with her father
• connects to Maus through the themes of Trauma and the Generational Divide, The Value of Bonds, and Crafting a Comic Memoir
• Fun Home on SuperSummary

MetaMaus by Art Spiegelman (2011)

• a book exploring the making of Maus
• ties into the theme of Crafting a Comic Memoir

Other Student Resources

Deconstructing Comics #077: Maus (2007)

• a podcast discussing Maus and its innovation and influence as a comic memoir
• shares the theme of Crafting a Comic Memoir

“Fathers, Killers, God, and ‘Maus’” by Jill Radsken (2017)